Houses
There are six houses in the school, each with a distinctive colour to be worn during house activities, and in the lower years house points can be collected for these houses. In addition, there are many inter-house competitions including poetry, sport and debating; the two biggest house events being Sports Day at the end of the academic year and also the School's Birthday, on the 29th September, when each of the houses performs a short play whose plot corresponds to a uniting theme, for example: Grimm's Fairy Tales, Greek Myths or Musicals. The plays are judged by a Teacher Panel on the basis of plot coherence, quotable lines, specific references to the school, the quality of the teacher parodies and overall effort from the house. In 2010 the house plays were won by Lyttelton with their version of The Titanic. Kensington won in 2011, with their version of Grease. Sports Day, the final house event of the year, was won by Chirol. Lyttleton won in 2012, playing The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and Kensington coming a close second (with Alice in Wonderland). However the house with the most housepoints - points received when students are extremely well behaved or do exceptional homework etc. - was Kensington.
The houses are as follows: Moberly-Bell, (named after Enid Moberly-Bell, first Headmistress of LMS) (pink), Lyttelton (after Dr. Edward Lytellton, a benefactor of the school) (blue), Carver (green), Marshall (Florence Marshall, a previous headmistress)(purple), Chirol (Sir Valentine Chirol) (red) and Kensington (The Bishop of Kensington) (yellow).
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